From a journalist and writer who lives in Iowa:
All of this adds up to a complex web of democratic fuckery that astounds and hurts the brain. The former mayor of Lonetree called the caucuses “Rube Goldberg in a blender.” The sum total of all of this change, along with a field that has four candidates bunched within a few percentage points could lead to a caucus where many candidates claim a win. Add in your weirdly authoritative conspiracy tweet threads from random people on Twitter and a pundit class that spent all of 2016 fanning itself on porches over Her Emails™ and is now thirsty for controversy, and you have a system that needs and wants to be better but is so trapped by its own power and influence that it can’t change. And what’s more American than that? https://gen.medium.com/the-iowa-caucuses-are-going-to-be-a-f-cking-nightmare-a5e6d869fcba